Sparx diagram generating capabilities

[Zaid]

Hi

As previously mentioned, I am evaluating Sparx EA8 for a project and I have a few questions on the capabilities.
I have successfully managed to create a Context View / Application landscape component model (in UML 2.0), and a few integration scenarios (e.g. using connectors between the front-end channel applications, integration layer and backend applications).

My CIO would like to know what Sparx EA 8 has to offer, in terms of automatically generating diagrams / different views for various stakeholders.

I see that Sparx can generate an activity, sequence & state machine diagrams + test cases from a use case.

Our Business Analysts typically model the business processes on the project between Level 1 and Level 5 in ARIS, and provide the narrative description of the processes in their functional specifications. Requirements are captured in a separate repository.

How should I go about capturing the business processes / use cases with minimal effort / do I need to have a use case to generate other diagrams?
I did not see the use cases being linked to an application or infrastructure in the online examples - How do I do this?
Are there any other views that Sparx EA8 can generate?

I would really appreciate your feedback.

Thanks
Zaid

[Geert Bellekens]

Zaid,

There aren't really that much diagrams that EA will generate for you, but that is probably because the requirements for such diagrams are very divers.
But you can always use the automation interface to write your own diagram generation.
What type of diagrams are you thinking about? (in general my experience is that auto-generated diagrams are pretty useless)

Geert